The Star Wars Imperial March. As played by the floppy disc drive orchestra…

Sep 29

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Quite frankly, this is just lovely.  A Czech student has taken two old 3.5″ floppy drives, and found a way to output the frequencies they generate when the head moves into music.

Specifically, the Imperial March from Star Wars.

Sir, we salute you.  And I guess now we know what all those buttons on the front of Vader’s chest unit were for…

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Posted on September 29, 2011, in daft, Music and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Leave a Comment.

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